Eric Hare

President/CEO
Global K9 Protection Group, LLC

Eric Hare is CEO of GK9PG, LLC. a K9 procurement, training and services provider for government and private sector entities. The company's dogs detect many types of threats, including explosives in air cargo.

Hare previously was CEO of Global K9 Solutions LLC and Chief Operations Officer for Talon Aerolytics, a global data collection company. He also served as Director of Operations for the AMK9 Academy, LLC, the training arm of AMK9, LLC, which at the time was the world’s largest K9 service company with over 700 canine teams.

Eric is a retired United States Infantry Officer with 25 years of service in many leadership roles and multiple overseas tours that included Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of his military career Eric was a member of the countermine team working group, served as the critical technology manager for the Future Combat Systems Improvised Explosive Device (IED) / Countermine efforts and was on the IED/Countermine team for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Organization.